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Model confabulation

Language models stating confident specifics, such as names, vendors or dependencies, that have no basis in their sources.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Gemini put a scraping vendor under a CLI that never called it

The CLI does generative engine optimization, but GEO means geographic across most of the indexed web, so a model given only the name picked the wrong sense and then supplied a vendor to fit it. Closing the gap took three files.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption12
Hype gap+8
Incentives58
Confidence40